“For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.”
'He was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors. He received living words to pass on to us - the 'assembly' (ekklēsia) in the wilderness is Israel gathered to receive the law. The 'angel who spoke to him' is the mediating angel at Sinai (a Jewish interpretive tradition reading Exodus 23:20 and Acts 7:38 together). The 'living words' (logia zōnta, oracles of life) are the Torah, God's word that gives life (Deuteronomy 32:47). The transmission of law passes from Moses to Israel to 'us' (us in Stephen's time).
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